“(...) and now only fragments of conversation would come back every now and again. "Goldie is, like, such a good dog, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The world is in its inherent nature (swabhaav). Satyug (era of the time cycle that is characterized by unity in thoughts, speech,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers,… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
“Poor old Lord Mortlake, who had only two topics of conversation, his gout and his wife! I never could quite make out… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For 'City of Ghosts,' I really didn't speak any Arabic. It obviously made it more difficult, but I also found it to… — Matthew Heineman Copy Share Image
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
It seems to me it's perfectly possible to vehemently disagree with a piece of work and to say that it's offensive and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“...in real life I always seem to have a hard time winding up a conversation or asking somebody to leave, and sometimes… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To be happily married, as I've been fortunate enough to be, is to be a partner in a conversation that can last… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“Each of us, has inside of us, a basic decency and goodness. If we listen to it and act on it, we… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's… — La'Porsha Renae Copy Share Image
In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“He was a man who formed opinions as he spoke them, or perhaps afterward, requiring him to ramble at length to grasp… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of… — David Abram Copy Share Image
“They listened to a series of speeches by civil rights luminaries, capped off by a rousing, crowd-pleasing address by Martin Luther King.… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them,… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights.… — Nancy Keenan Copy Share Image
To make riot grrrl move into the future in a new way with a bunch of new names and a bunch of… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“I don't think of love in terms of relationships. It happens in terms of seconds, but it goes away like that, too.… — Patrick Somerville Copy Share Image
“Barack Obama, in a 2007 stump speech for his nascent presidential campaign, had pledged, ‘No more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
“I believe in prophetic speech . . . still. I believe in Cassandra, I believe in Electra and in the charming Antigone.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of… — Frank Van Dun Copy Share Image
A lot of times in my short fiction there isn't much dramatized scene - there are a lot of short, interconnected bits,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I've harassed pediatricians and nurses, demanded extra conferences with preschool teachers, contacted speech therapists and occupational therapists over delays other mothers probably… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
“Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“dialogue led participants not to certainty but to a shocking realization of the profundity of human ignorance. However carefully, logically, and rationally… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/post/santorum-says-he-almost-threw-up-after-reading-jfk-speech-on-separation-of-church-and-state/2012/02/26/gIQA91hubR_blog.html) — Michael C. Burgess Copy Share Image
Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't… — Cee Lo Green Copy Share Image
The fact that there were discreet channels of communication established with Iran in 2012 is something that we confirmed publicly. However, we… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action. There weren't any more… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
“...[F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Now I was laughing. I was still scared, but it was somehow comforting to think that maybe stage fright was a trait… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
![“I believe in prophetic speech . . . still. I believe in Cassandra, I believe in Electra and in the charming Antigone. . . . For me, they’re more alive than the [Institute for] Intellectual Cooperation and its choice group of old men.” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ef5/anonymous-1_communication_i-believe-in-prophetic-speech-still-i-be_2601487.jpg)
![“By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.” quote by Ilana Mercer](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/68d/ilana-mercer-6995_business_by-going-on-the-defensive-libertarians-a_768647.jpg)
![“...[F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words and phrases; no, what you will hear will be a straightforward speech in the first words that occur to me, confident as I am in the justice of my cause; and I do not want…” quote by Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a83/socrates-405_bluntness_f-rom-me-you-shall-hear-the-whole-truth_982365.jpg)
![“Now I was laughing. I was still scared, but it was somehow comforting to think that maybe stage fright was a trait [even my parents had]... "But seriously, how do you get over the jitters?" Dad was still smiling, but I could tell he had turned serious because he slowed down his speech. "You don't…” quote by Gayle Forman](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/5f8/gayle-forman-312_communication_now-i-was-laughing-i-was-still-scared-bu_981933.jpg)
